Dave Eggers' Wish: Once Upon a School

"Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open."

A true inspiration!

$1 Billion home completed

India's wealthiest man finally has a new home to move into. This building was suppose to be "The Greenest of all Buildings", but may be one of the biggest Green Washing efforts the world has ever seen. This 27 story building is 568 ft. high and has a total area of 398,000 sq. ft. In reality, this building could host 60 stories if, Mukesh Ambani (Forbes 4th richest man) settled for standard ceilings instead of an exceptionally high floor-to-ceiling program.

This building has its own health club, gym and dance studio, swimming pool, ballroom, plenty of guest rooms, lounges, 50 seater cinema, 3 helicopter pads and a garage that holds 160 lucky guests.

What makes this worse is that this home is for 5 people (Mukesh, his wife and 3 children)! Building a $1 Billion home in a nation which has 1/3 of the world's poorest population is a pure example of excessive consumption and wastefulness. I'm sure your family would be extremely happy with even a $1 Million home, and just think what you could do spending $999,000,000 on your own nation... What a waste...

Reused Suitcase ideas

Have some old suitcases you don't use anymore? Check out these 3 creative ideas that have made "Reuse", so cool.


Gionata Gatto, an italian designer from the Netherlands, designed UrbanBuds (Luggage that grow up to 36 different food plants)


Designed by green enthusiast Katie Thompson, this old Samsonite suitcase is made into a designer chair. I want 5 of these for my apartment!


Lastly, Boom Cases are these retro styled boomboxes that have powerful speakers and a built-in battery that lasts up to 7 hours, and even has its own charger. To show its up to speed, you can easily hook up your iPod or mp3 player to them as well. Boom Cases start at $250.

Notebook to Inspire

Designed by Marc Tomasset, this isn't just your regular notebook. This notebook is meant to inspire your creativity. The line orientations have a different design on every page. What you think is normal, like how lines should be on paper, is completely switched.

Think differently!

Transformer X

If you were psyched up about Google's announcement of their self-driving cars last week, here is something that will blow that out of the water.

On Tuesday, DARPA officially announced its "TRANSFORMER X" (REAL LIFE TRANSFORMERS?!?!?!) project to build a Humvee that can take off in flight.

Forbes Blog says, " The Transformer X will be designed for depositing and extracting soldiers and supplies in tough-to-reach places without easily accessible roads, taking off from a standstill and flyng up to 250 miles with a 1000 pound load. Most Science-fiction of all? It won't necessarily have a human at the controls-or at least not one with any piloting experience"

To read more about this, check out Forbes Blog

Mom made iron man costume

My mom use to make me all my Halloween costumes!

SUPERHERO CAKE!

I WANT THIS FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!! I don't know who made this, what flavors are in it, or anything about it. All i do know is that this cake is amazing!

Solo City Tower for Olympics

In preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games, that will be held in Rio de Janeiro, an amazing observation tower has been drafted up in welcoming the games.

This project is from Zurique, and utilizes solar energy during the day to pump the sea water as seen in the model. The kinetic energy of the water movement will be used to turn the turbines and produce power for the night time.

This amazing structure is called the Solo City Tower and will be used for many different things; 1. A welcoming sign to new visitors arriving via plane. 2 The perfect observation deck to this the beautiful beaches 3. Cafe Amphitheatre 4. Auditorium 5. Shops 6. AND, you can also Bungee jump from the top platform!